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Hyderabad · On-site · 12+ Yrs · Oct 27
Biotech & Pharmaceuticals · 10000+ Employees · Basel, Switzerland
At Novartis, we use science-based innovation to address some of society’s most challenging healthcare issues. We discover and develop breakthrough treatments and find new ways to deliver them to as many people as possible. Channel Guidance: If you believe that you have experienced any medical side effects or reactions from a Novartis product you should consult your physician, pharmacist or other healthcare professional immediately. Alternatively you can also report these to us directly using the information shared on the following link: https://www.novartis.com/our-company/contact-us
Hiring: Engineering
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Overview
Summary This role leads the design and delivery of enterprise data platforms and AI-ready solutions using AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, and Python.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize scalable batch, streaming, CDC, and event-driven data pipelines using modern data engineering best practices and production-grade Python and SQL.
- Lead hands-on development and optimization of Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse solutions, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Design and implement Snowflake data engineering solutions, including ingestion, transformation, governance, orchestration, and secure data consumption patterns.
- Develop reusable integration frameworks, APIs, CDC processes, and connectivity patterns across enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, governance tools, ERP, and CRM systems.
- Build AI-ready data foundations, including RAG pipelines, vector retrieval, context engineering, and agentic workflows, enabling enterprise AI and GenAI use cases.
- Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security-by-design, observability, governance, mentoring, and end-to-end ownership of data products and platform capabilities.
Qualifications
- Practical exposure to Generative AI technologies, including RAG architectures, embeddings, vector search, LLM integration, context engineering, and agentic workflows.
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, SaaS integrations, metadata management, lineage, data governance, and access control frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and delivery leadership skills with a highly hands-on engineering mindset.
- Why Novartis?
- Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
- Learn More Here
- https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
- Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
- Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
- Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here:
- https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
- Why Novartis:
- Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Benefits
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Last updated 3 November 2026
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